- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/13/2009
* NYBU0908.13
- Birds mentioned
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YELLOW-H. BLACKBIRD
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Semipalmated Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
Caspian Tern
Mourning Dove
Indigo Bunting
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/13/2009
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BOSBirding.org
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message,
(3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for
instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
YELLOW-H. BLACKBIRD was the highlight of reports received August 6
through August 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region.
August 9 and 10, an immature male YELLOW-H. BLACKBIRD was found at
the flooded mucklands at Route 98 and West Muck Road in the Genesee
County Town of Elba, north of Batavia. There have been no reports of
the YELLOW-H. BLACKBIRD after the 10th, and August 12 it was noted
that the field had been drained and most of the shorebirds had
departed.
Prior reports from the mucklands included nine shorebird species,
highlighted by 77 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 18 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, 2 STILT
SANDPIPERS and numbers of SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and
PECTORAL SANDPIPER, plus WOOD DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, GREEN-WINGED
TEAL and one NORTHERN PINTAIL.
Also in the Batavia area, at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, summer
waterfowl included 5 WOOD DUCKS, 2 AMERICAN WIGEONS, AMERICAN BLACK
DUCK, 190 MALLARDS, 2 BLUE-WINGED TEALS, NORTHERN SHOVELER, 4 HOODED
MERGANSERS and 17 RUDDY DUCKS, plus 10 GREAT EGRETS and 7 BONAPARTE'S
GULLS.
Other shorebird reports this week - seven species plus 600 MOURNING
DOVES at the soybean field on Hulbert Road in the Town of Wilson. From
the Town of Sherman in Chautauqua County, on the Sheldon Trail off
Titus Road, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED
SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and WILSON'S SNIPE. And on the Bird Island
Pier in Buffalo, 12 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS plus 2 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS.
Other reports this week - BALD EAGLE chased by a TERN species over
the upper Niagara River at the waterfowl viewing overlook on the Moses
Parkway in Niagara Falls, New York. Other BALD EAGLES at Saint
Columbans in Sheridan and over Silver Creek. At Dunkirk Harbor, 11
CASPIAN TERNS. And, at a feeder in West Seneca, an INDIGO BUNTING.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 20. Please call
in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the
tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird.
- End Transcript
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